“ The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man. ”
- Euripides- Copy
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“ We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves. ”
- Francis J. Braceland- Copy
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“ So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
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“ Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within. ”
- Jose Ortega y Gasset- Copy
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“ I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time. ”
- Oprah Winfrey- Copy
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“ Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men — the balance-wheel of the social machinery. ”
- Horace Mann- Copy
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“ Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends. ”
- Plutarch- Copy
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“ If this phrase of the 'balance of power' is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war will never be wanting, and peace can never be secure. ”
- John Bright- Copy
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“ The politician is like an acrobat: He keeps his balance by saying the opposite of what he does. ”
- Arthur Schopenhauer- Copy
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“ I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes. ”
- Bette Midler- Copy
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“ In Giving, a man receives more than he gives; and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given. ”
- George McDonald- Copy
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“ Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe? ”
- Stephen Hawking- Copy
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“ I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes. ”
- Charles Lamb- Copy
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“ The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man. ”
- Euripides- Copy
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“ Fortunate indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself, and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use. ”
- Peter Mere Latham- Copy
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“ So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
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“ The theater is a great equalizer: it is the only place where the poor can look down on the rich. ”
- Will Rogers- Copy
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“ Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares. ”
- Peter Ustinov- Copy
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“ Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it. ”
- George Santayana- Copy
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“ The regularity of a habit is generally in proportion to its absurdity. ”
- Marcel Proust- Copy
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“ Words are a pretty fuzzy substitute for mathematical equations. ”
- Isaac Asimov- Copy
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“ Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward. ”
- Maxwell Maltz- Copy
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“ Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise. ”
- George Orwell- Copy
- 1.3K
“ My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be content with it? To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for. ”
- Jane Rule- Copy
- 390
“ Problems arise in that one has to find a balance between what people need from you and what you need for yourself. ”
- Jessye Norman- Copy
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